Archive for August, 2008

 

BGP Man in the Middle Attacks

August 27th, 2008

By prepending the relevant ASNs, the routers along the reply path will not accept the rogue route announcement as a fundamental principle of the BGP path-selection algorithm is that a router will not accept a route whose own ASN is within the AS-path so as to prevent routing loops. Thus, the routers along the reply [...]

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Facebook – The next Social Engineering Tool

August 16th, 2008

Update (25/08/2008):
Someone who is far more familiar with Javascript then I am kindly explained what the code snippet above does. I’m not sure if he’s wants to be named so I’ll just quote “him”.
him: the little javascript snipplet you posted
him: basically just spits out
him: <script language=”Javascript”>window.top.location.href=’http://absvdfd87.com/’;</script>
him: which redirects you to http://tracking.profitsource.net/redir.aspx?CID=9725&AFID=28836&DID=44292
him: then spits back a [...]

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Outsourcing Redefined

August 13th, 2008

The possibility of outsourcing in the globalized world of today is no longer an if but a when.
In these days where oil prices are higher than they have ever been and rapidly increasing transportation costs make outsourcing a little less desirable in the manufacturing sector, detractors of the globalization movement are starting rejoice as a [...]

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Finch

August 2nd, 2008

Most IRC junkies will swear by irssi ( irssi.org ) in a screen ( gnu.org ) on a remote shell account. But what about MSN? Is is possible to run an MSN client from the command line?

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